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ieie3366 | 14 days ago | on: Facebook is cooked

You are just not the target audience. Meta is a trillion dollar company and their algos are extremely optimized.

It probably detected your gender (male), age, location, social graph, as a combination of all these that you would be interested in AI-generated softcore pornography. And for the average user with your stats, they absolutely are.

Of course, nobody at Meta hardcoded their algorithm to do this: it’s just naturally found out the kind of content a person with your specs loves. Sorry, OP

ieie3366 | 16 days ago | on: Ask HN: Is AI the final nail in the coffin for solo developers?

Most people building with AI have zero taste and can't even read the code it outputs, meaning they are doomed from the start

The level of serious competition is surprisingly small. It mostly consists of people who could actually build without agentic LLMs but now get supercharged.

ieie3366 | 24 days ago | on: The Day the Telnet Died

That's crazy. This is core business critical software but they just YOLO critical changes without any automated tests? this PR would be insta-rejected in the small SAAS shop I work at.

ieie3366 | 3 months ago | on: OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030

But this is not a bank, or an airline, or a real estate giant.

If OpenAI goes bankrupt, what happens? People won’t be able to write their precious slop oh no and serious professionals will just switch to any other LLM provider

ieie3366 | 4 months ago | on: Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end

Not really. WSL was made because Microsoft wanted to preserve the ’average normie dev’ demographic who were increasingly moving to MacOS/Linux because the tooling was ass. Think a developer in some boring big insurance company.

Microsoft does not and never will give a shit about some open source/privacy purist user.

Now the IT department can give them windows laptops with WSL and everybody stays happy

ieie3366 | 4 months ago | on: Birth of Prettier

Looking back at it, just crazy how much effort and man-hours went to manually editing whitespace and arguing/nitpicking about it. This is something that should have been automated by the 90s.

ieie3366 | 7 months ago | on: All AI models might be the same

LLMs are bruteforce reverse engineered human brains. Think about it. Any written text out there is written by human brains. The ”function” to output this is whatever happens inside the brain, insanely complex.

LLM ”training” is just brute forcing the same function into existence. ”Human brain output X, llm output Y, mutate it times billion until X and Y start matching”

ieie3366 | 7 months ago | on: Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?

Using JS instead of TS. Pre-LLMs it was way slower to write and debug complex types. Especially in startup environments it was not often worth it.

Nowadays in 2025 with LLM autocomplete in IDEs, TS is a joy, anyone not using it for anything serious just smells of plain incompetence

ieie3366 | 7 months ago | on: Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

LLMs are godtier if you know what you’re doing, and prompt them with ”do X”, where x is a SELF-CONTAINED change you would manually know how to implement

For example, today I asked claude to implement per-user rate-limiting into my nestjs service, then iterated by asking implementing specific unit tests and some refactoring. It one-shot everything. I would say 90% time savings.

Unskilled people ask them ”i have giant problem X solve it” and end up with slop

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